Need to ./configure && make

I need to install SDL and Lua onto my mac to compile programs. Whenever I use the ./compile && make command to build it to install, it fails with the following error:

Duncans-MacBook-Pro:SDL-1.2.14 duncan******$ ./configure && make
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/Users/duncan*******/Downloads/SDL-1.2.14':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

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